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Assessments as Assertions are Creating the Confusion in America Today.
photo: quinn.anya Commonly heard in America today: “I had a pit in my stomach,” when we mean I had a feeling in the pit of my stomach. “There are less cars on the road,” when we mean fewer cars on the...
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White and Racist? Blame it on Black People?
The day after the election of our first Black president I was proud to be an American. The change “I could believe in” had just happened. Then the stuff hit the fan. Racism seemed to get a shot in the...
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An Open Posthumous Letter to President Reagan
I agreed with you, President Reagan, when you said that “Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.” While I’ve run my life, the government hasn’t always protected me. They...
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Republicans Bark, But Obama Moves On
Today’s various Republican comments about President Obama’s SOTU speech reminds me of a Persian proverb that goes, “the dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.” It seems to me the Obama caravan is about...
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Pope Francis Strikes Again: Abortion is the Topic
Pope Francis declared that, “Unfortunately what is thrown away is not only food and dispensable objects but often human beings themselves, who are discarded as unnecessary.” No surprise here. The...
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We All Live With a Death Sentence.
This excerpt caught my attention. It’s from an article in the New York Times written by a 36 year old physician with lung cancer, Paul Kalanithi. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my...
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Paul Ryan to School the Pope
“Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Sunday suggested that Pope Francis had been touting the same “free market” principles opposing the “welfare state” that the Republican Party has been pushing for years. Late...
View ArticleJust Call Me Conservative So I Can Maintain My Self Respect
Why do people whose interests are harmed by conservative policies consider themselves to be conservatives? Because to do so makes them feel better than the lower class of people who populate the...
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With Illinois Aboard, We Can Now Carry Concealed Weapons in Every State.
As abhorrent as it was to allow hungry children in Utah to watch as their lunches were trashed, rather than let them eat, at least it was not as cowardly as our Congress’s unwillingness to strengthen...
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Mood of Fear = Need for Concealed Carry
The debate is over, and we now have the right to carry a concealed weapon in all 50 states. But we are not discussing why some people feel that need so intensely. In order to understand, we need to...
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